I have made this CW and let's see how the community reacts to this. Not only are CW surveys not required - they work best when people can collaborate on one useful answer as opposed to a beauty contest where certain things get voted up or down for criteria that are vague at best. (e.g. "flag pole" to me certainly isn't the same to you. The whole idea of "under-documented" is so relative and a moment in time as Apple writes KB articles and all the details come out here, in reviews, and in training as people explore the OS.)
– bmike♦Sep 19 '12 at 19:04

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On devices with a magnetometer, tapping the location button in Maps a second time will make the view rotate with your device. (Posting this here for whoever starts following bmike's suggestion to use)
– ughoavgfhwSep 20 '12 at 0:27

The only problem I find with this new feature is there's no way to disable the vibrations for alarms if they're enabled is settings. I'd prefer my phone to start playing the tune and not jump around on my nightstand while still vibrate when a message arrives or another alert is displayed.
– Michal MSep 21 '12 at 14:43

Open Messages in Settings on other iOS devices and disable and then re-enable. This will add your phone number to the list. You need to then select it (a tick mark appears next to it). You will now receive messages on this device. There is also a section to choose to send from an address or number lower on the screen.

On OS X devices (10.8.2), open Messages and choose Preferences (from Messages menu) and then choose Accounts. You will now see your number and can select to receive messages on that device.

When you do this, you will get notifications on the other devices confirming that is enabled.

I'm not sure why I see so many people saying that it's tricky to get this new iMessage functionality working. I upgraded my equipment to iOS 6 and upon the first boot I was prompted to use my phone number as my primary iMessage identifier on all my devices, including iPad. There were no extra steps.
– user11633Sep 20 '12 at 23:09

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@AlainKing I got it as soon as it was available for download.
– user11633Sep 21 '12 at 17:33

Not all the time; I've had hit-or-miss luck with this, sometimes it just shows "Top Hit" for search queries.
– Terrance ShawSep 20 '12 at 5:07

@Veil If it's a top hit, it should be listed below with the folder too.
– ughoavgfhwSep 20 '12 at 22:13

@ughoavgfhw Just confirmed with a few different app searches, and it doesn't always happen, but when it does, it only shows as a "Top Hit", but nothing else.
– Terrance ShawSep 21 '12 at 1:41

hmm, I can't get it not to work... also, very cool feature. There were many times I'd 'lost' an app on the phone. I could search for and find it, but I still didn't know where it was.
– JoshPSep 26 '12 at 15:41

Regular songs still have next & previous track buttons. It used to be too easy to accidentally push next or previous track while trying to pause a long podcast, causing you to completely lose your place. This change both solves that problem and offers a very handy quick-rewind option.

Pull to refresh in Mail.app

Mail now has pull to refresh (like Twitter, Facebook, etc.). This is also now a standard control that third party developers can use. So far I've only seen this new "native" pull to refresh in Lumatics City Maps but I'm sure it'll be everywhere soon enough.

App Store experience redesign. Most notably, when you install or update an application the App Store App no longer closes but instead show the download/installation progress inside the store (below the icon).

Panorama Panning Direction

Don't like the default left to right panning direction in Camera.app's new Panorama function? Just tap the arrow and it will change from right to left!

When the app quits, the direction defaults back to left to right.

Just happened to hit the arrow yesterday by accident and saw the change. A nice feature, but for the life of me I can't figure out why it is there, other than to help the dyslexic among us (and I am one of them, so no flames, please)!

Auto-correct now considers your keyboard shortcuts when giving you suggestions and correcting your typing. In iOS 5, if you had a keyboard shortcut defined, you had to type it in exactly in order to get the substitution. iOS 6 now guesses that you meant to enter one of your shortcuts, and offers the substitution straight up even if you were going to misspell the shortcut.

I tested this and it doesn't work for Gmail. If turn off "Archive Mail" under account properties, then tapping-and-holding only gives you the option to delete. If you turn it on, then tapping-and-holding gives you both options, but both do the same thing (archiving). You would expect it to work with Gmail since All Mail now has a distinctive "Archive" icon, but Apple likely only tested this with iCloud Mail.
– user11633Sep 25 '12 at 17:56

Rotate maps

In the new maps app, use two fingers to rotate the map. Now you can orient the map exactly in a way that makes sense. It even remembers the rotation if you rotate your device.

And even better, if you activate the compass, and then move away from your position, it remembers the rotation (previously when you moved away, it rotated back to north being up, which was very annoying).

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